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Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 5 The Partial From The Whole:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 19, 2020

In today’s post, John Davis pauses from discussing the daily experiences in hospital, the outcomes of four operations and the nature of his impairments, to try to explain what it feels like […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 4: Walk Not Alone Among The Flames

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 13, 2020

In today’s post John Davis explores the bleaker aspects of being in hospital.  Including that death was an ever present, at times he felt he had nothing more to give and his […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 3: His Legs Were Weak And His Back Was Bent

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 10, 2020

In the next few articles, John Davis connects his experience of being in hospital to the current Corona virus crisis and explores issues such as loss, survival, friendship and hallucinations.  Today’s article […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 2: ‘He Was Aye Working!’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 8, 2020

Following on from Article 1 In today’s article John Davis continues to recount his harrowing story of being admitted to hospital with gangrene in Phoenix and analyses his experience of having to […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 1 An 8-1 Dog In A Two Horse Race

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 6, 2020

This is the first of a series of articles where John Davis recounts his experience of receiving life-saving surgery whilst on holiday in the USA and explains how the Social Model of […]

Camino de Santiago Guest Blogg Lynn McNair

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on March 21, 2019

I am a really busy person, both personally and professionally; often juggling more than one position at the same time.   For example, I lecture at the University of Edinburgh and am also […]

The Emotional Roots of Social Justice

By Gary Walsh on September 30, 2018

I am a PhD Researcher based at the School of Education in University of Glasgow. My main interests relate to social justice, citizenship education and values. My background is in education, having […]

Accessing an assessment of access; The ironic outcome of a meeting to discuss the accessibility of the Edinburgh Fringe By George Low

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 26, 2018

Now that August has come and gone Edinburgh is no longer the centre of the arts world; the stalls are all packed up, posters have been removed and the streets cleared to […]

Free Comfort Dwamena – The UK Home Office Consistently Ignore Scottish Views on Migration

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on July 15, 2018

By John M Davis Today’s blog concerns the trials and tribulations of a friend from Ghana who has been very poorly treated by the UK Home Office. I first met Kwame whilst […]

1. Lost and Found: Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Part One. A Very Personal Ameripolitan Story.  By John M. Davis

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 3, 2018

In series of 5 posts John Davis reviews Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue’s new album Lost and Found.  This first post summarises the different characters that emerge across the album; […]

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